We live in an era of big data. But does access to big data actually translate into better insights? Not unless you have an effective method to distill it down and translate it into a story that’s both digestible and meaningful.
There’s an amazing synergy between great customer insights and customer empathy and tapping into that synergy is a critical part of my job as a qualitative researcher. Here, I take a deeper look into customer empathy and its value to building strong customer relationships.
There’s a lot riding on your sales messaging so getting your messaging right is crucial. Your messaging needs to be interesting, informative, persuasive, and convincing enough to drive a call to action… no big deal, right? Here are some tried-and-true tips on setting up a process to arm your sales team with the right message.
Voice of the Customer (VoC) insights can help a team fine-tune its focus and ensure that product marketing and product development are aligned behind an accurate picture of the customer. Here are some of the ways…
Uncovering your customers’ unmet needs is a key activity in the “Exploration” phase of the Pragmatic Marketing Framework, where we ask two questions: What challenges, frustrations, and unmet needs do consumers have? How are current competitive offerings addressing these?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a story is likely worth a thousand pictures. In market research, where you may have hundreds or thousands of data points, data storytelling is an essential skill to effectively communicate and influence your audience in a clear, concise, compelling, manner.
Delivering bad news can be essential to addressing the challenges a client is facing and identifying real areas of opportunity and improvement. Here are some tips to being the bearer of bad news that I’ve developed and refined in my 20+ years of marketing research consulting work…
Here, at Lillian Labs, we’ve recently conducted a few studies looking into how to message to those who are still hesitant or opposed to getting the COVID-19 vaccine. In April, I presented findings from one of the studies we did in partnership with Boost Oregon to the Oregon Health Authority’s Immunization Policy Advisory Team (IPAT).
Innovation is time-consuming and expensive. Yes, we all need to innovate, and creating new things is in our DNA. But, you also may be sitting on a gold mine of an opportunity to creatively repurpose something you already have… We call it creative repurposing.
Whether you’re presenting at an industry event or posting on social media, these tips can be used to reach your persona in meaningful ways. Consider this your guide to building detailed buyer personas that drive meaningful conversations which lead to meaningful sales.